"Forever is a long time."   Melody mused as she drifted in a peaceful trance.   "My new home," she thought with a smile.  "The universe."

Mel decided that Heaven was pretty much the way the book had said it would be.  In some ways it was organic.  "Like my new body."  She thought as she squeezed the very real flesh and bone of her arm.    

"And yet, I really could have never imagined this."  She murmured as she waved her hand toward the giant gas planet that hung in the sky above her.

Mel glanced down.  She felt the urge to admire her perfect body again.  "I may be shallow," she thought.  "But it's nice to no longer have the hugest hips in all creation."  

Then there was the humming.  "Well sort of like humming."  She thought.  "That's really the only words I have to describe it.  It's like my body is full of energy that never seems to end.  Like that feeling when you've been riding a bike for awhile and suddenly you're just in a zone.  You feel like you could pedal forever and never get tired."

She wondered over the other changes as well.   Her old soccer injury no longer plagued her right knee.  Then there were the really big differences.  The mental changes.  The anxiety that had always pricked the back of her mind was now replaced with a constant joy.  

"It sort of feels like...hum.  Like I'm always just finishing a passionate kiss."  She smiled at the thought.  It was so much more than she had ever imagined yet somehow not overwhelming.

How could she have anticipated the way the very universe would bend to her will in an instance?  The way the very fabric of space itself would move to answer every desire of her now pure heart.

Currently, she was lingering on the moon Ganymede.  "What an amazing view of Jupiter."  She thought idly.  She had to laugh as the old human memory of amazement overtook her.  

Suddenly, she remembered that someone was missing.  Her eyes quickly filled with tears as she looked down and he was there.  Her companion cocked his head and looked at her.  Was it her imagination or did his expression imply that it was about time she remembered him?

His gray and white fur was covered in the ice shavings that served as snow on the large moon.   "We should be frozen."  She thought idly.  Then she laughed.  Joy bubbled up so easily now.

She bent down and immediately the huge husky rolled over to expose his stomach. Mel sat on the cold, rough surface.  It somehow felt as comfortable as the grass on a warm Spring day.  She rubbed Morley's tummy vigorously and then wrestled with him a little bit.

"Ah, Morely"  She sighed.  "I missed you so much.  What were you doing all these years while you waited for me?"  Morley rolled, stood up and shook snow all over them.  He looked at her with his icy blue eyes.  "Woof!"  He replied.

"Hum," she thought.  "Guess I still don't speak dog."  But that was okay.  It was a good thing.  Something familiar to balance the fantastical that was now such a normal part of her life.  Well, not life exactly.  Her forever.  "Wow!"  she thought.  She wondered if this feeling of exhilaration would ever ebb.  

"It's sort of like an incredible dream.  Isn't it Morley?"  She said.  "But not exactly like a dream because there is no fear attached to the exhilaration."  

Morley started bouncing around.  "Okay," she said while standing up.  "Come on, boy!  Let's run!"  

As they ran together Mel looked down and laughed again.  Morely still had the goofy habit of lolling his tongue out and looking at her while he ran.  "All right, Morely!"  She yelled while still laughing.  "Let's find out how long it takes to run around the largest moon in the solar system!"